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4.00 Credits
Human Rights Intended as an introduction to advanced theories of culture in contemporary anthropology, this course is required of all anthropology majors. In contrast to early anthropological focus on seemingly isolated, holistic cultures, more recent studies have turned their attention to conflicts within societies and the intersection of local systems of meaning with global processes of politics, economics, and history. The class is designed around an influential social theorist, such as Bourdieu, Bakhtin, or Marx, and the application of their theories by anthropologists, such as Aihwa Ong, Judith Irvine, or Michael Taussig. The seminar aims to inspire critical engagement, with an eye toward developing theoretical tools and questions for a Senior Project that makes use of contemporary theories of culture.
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4.00 Credits
GSS, Human Rights Anthropology has long been concerned with bodies, both as sources of symbolic representations of the social world and as vehicles for expressions of individual and collective identities. Recent interest has centered on the individual body as a locus of situated knowledge: it has become a target for the production of consumer desires and a site of commodification and political control. This course explores a range of different issues raised by these perspectives through readings that theorize the body, supplemented by comparative ethnographic studies of bodily knowledge and practice. It considers the gendering of bodies and other culturally constructed markings of age, social class, and race; mind-body relations; and the manipulation of bodily surface and form to establish boundaries and identities through techniques such as tattooing, piercing, dieting, sculpting, and cosmetic surgery; among other topics.
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4.00 Credits
This course begins by considering the extent to which time and space are cultural constructions that vary within and across social groups. It challenges understandings of these concepts as natural or inevitable, and explores different possibilities for measuring, representing, and creating meaning in relation to them. Time and space are so fundamental that we are often unaware of the ways they are embedded in our lives. Yet on a daily basis they reflect and reinforce interpersonal and institutional relations of power. Hence, this course investigates spatiotemporal dynamics and strategies as elements of social hierarchy, and examines time and space as organizing concepts with which to understand the world. Finally, it considers how political economy structures experiences of time and space. This includes temporal disciplines of commodity production, state seizure of "private" time under socialism,and descriptions of time-space compression in late capitalism.
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4.00 Credits
This introduction to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as it is used in Arab countries today presents Arabic script and pronunciation and essen- tials of basic Arabic structures, syntax, and vocabulary, reinforced by reading graded texts. Differences between MSA and educated spoken Arabic are highlighted, as are significant aspects of Arab culture. This course is open to students with no previous knowledge of Arabic and to others on consultation with the instructor.
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2.00 Credits
In addition to serving as an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), this course reinforces language skills by using graded texts to expand students' active and passive lexicon and grammatical abilities. Significant aspects of Arab culture are highlighted, as are differences between MSA and the spoken Arabic of the more educated. Students work in the language laboratory and watch movies and TV programs. Additional two-hour sessions with the Arabic tutor provide conversational practice.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing a significant level of linguistic and communicative competence. The four basic language skills-reading, speaking, listening, and writing-are dealt with simultaneously. Selected texts from Arabic media are read to expand active and passive lexicon and grammatical structures. Prerequisites: Arabic 101 or at least one year of Modern Standard Arabic and approval of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course continues to focus on the students' development of the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic. To increase the range and accuracy of oral and written expression and aural comprehension, the course includes more complex grammatical structures and expansion of vocabulary through extended readings using audio and video materials. Classes are conducted entirely in Arabic (except for grammatical explanations, when needed).
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who have studied at least two years of basic Arabic and who want to expand their reading and speaking and enrich their understanding of Arab culture. Materials include Al-Kitaab Fii Ta'llum al-Arabiyya (Part 3) and texts selected from newspapers, journals, and fictional works.
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4.00 Credits
Students in this course achieve an advanced level in listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. Materials include short stories, film, poetry, and critical essays in Arabic. Important writers and intellectuals are read in the original, including Yusuf Idris, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Fuad al-Takarli, Nawal El Saadawi, and Nasr Abu Zaid. Students write short compositions and précis, give oral presentations on a chosen topic, and participate in and lead class discussions.
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4.00 Credits
Color influences all aspects of our experience- perceptual, emotional, psychological, physiological, even spiritual. The goal of this class is to develop a working knowledge of color as it may be applied to any visual medium. The nature of assignments ranges from vigorous color studies to train the eye to forms of expression more personal and expressive in nature.
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